Posts Tagged ‘Glaucoma’
How to Glaucoma Treatments
When speaking of glaucoma tend to generalize without considering that there are different types of glaucoma that broadly fall into two main groups: open-angle glaucoma and angle closure glaucoma. Dr. Sergio Bonafont, director of the Center of Ophthalmology BONAFONT of Barcelona, the center of reference when it comes to treatment of eye problems, explains the differences between both diseases and what ways exist as a solution to each of them.
Open Angle Glaucoma
In this case what happens is that the liquid that makes eye leaking badly, so that the intraocular pressure rises. This causes the retina to be injured and cause problems in the eye and related to the disease.
Closed-Angle Glaucoma
With respect to closed-angle glaucoma what happens is there is no way that the eye fluid to leak, causing a sudden rise in intraocular pressure. The eye becomes red and painful congestive. If detected early it is possible to correct the problem, but many people in the past, had just taking a blind after having suffered much pain for this type of glaucoma. Read the rest of this entry »